Styrene will eventually make up the grip texture.
The front grip was made from 2 pieces of 3/4' MDF, screwed together and shaped on a belt sander. The lower support rod was made out of varying sized of pine dowel, threaded over a 1/4' aluminum bar. This was also a low-budget build, so I didn't have the liberty of going out and buying fancy new holesaws. I used a table router to re-shape the holes in the stock and bevel the edges. and a space for the rear stock and lower receiver to mount The barrel has a few sections cut out for the microfusion cell. Ignore the lighter pieces near the bottom - those are part of another build.Īfter cleaning up the cuts on a belt sander, I began the assembly of the main body in the 2 most prominent parts - the square 'barrel' and the rear stock.
Impressive, right? I had a sick idea of just scotch-taping all these together, painting the whole thing silver, and handing it to him the day of the convention.
I taught him how to use a bandsaw (nothing like a crash course in something that can leave you fingerless!) and he went to town rough-cutting the shapes I'd refine later into the gun. In order to save time, my friend came over and traced my blueprints onto MDF.
